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St. Brigid's cross

Not a mention in this article or Wiki. link to Brigid's cross. Some article this is!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.53.121.124 (talk) 20:53, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Brigid's cross seems to be a Christian symbol. Imbolc is primarily a pagan festival. Span (talk) 23:19, 27 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Again quite true however this page is quite obviously hijacked and wikipedia has decided that a national holiday for St. Brigid's Day must be vandalised with a bunch of inane neo pagan nonsense 37.228.227.112 (talk) 00:27, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think you may be looking for the Brigid of Kildare article? Bastun^{Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ!} 01:38, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Split Imbolc page from St Brigid's day page?

Bastun recently edited out mentions of St Brighid's day on this page. It got me thinking this is a problem as currently there is no page for St Brigid's day. This creates the erroneous impression that that the two religious events are the same thing which has to be countered. So is everyone supportive for a demerging?Aerchasúr (talk) 09:32, 13 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

St Brigid's Day and Imbolc are two entirely different things, so no objection here. The procedure you need to follow to establish consensus and carry out the split properly is outlined here: WP:SPLITTING. Bastun^{Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ!} 11:45, 13 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

@Aerchasúr to some people (neo-pagan and christians) imbolc and brigids day are different events, therefore they should be split.

https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/imbolc

that said, it does seem to be a link between them, but that could be better served by discussing it on the separate pages, without conflating the two. DecFinney (talk) 09:07, 1 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Imbolc is most certainly intertwined with St. Brigid/St. Brigid's Day, and has been for hundreds of years. Maybe concentrate on the article you're talking about creating, rather than removing material from this article? Bastun^{Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ!} 20:01, 26 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I agree to splitting this subject. St. Brigid's Day and Candlemas have a true linkage. Those observances were created to erase and convert people from Paganism, to erase Imbolc. This article is very convoluted and very pandering to Abrahamic talking points. I think it should be separated for better representation of all faiths involved. Odin Wynd (talk) 21:16, 4 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I think this article gives too much focus to paganism as there's no mentions in early Irish literature of Imbolc being a religious festival and the link between St Brigid's Day and Imbolc is only a theory and is the association between Imbolc and the pagan goddess Brigid. This article should be split though I agree. 92.51.249.119 (talk) 02:22, 8 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

At least one study has argued that 'imbolc' shouldn't actually refer to anything pagan at all, but rather a Christian festival of purification on February 2nd. See Bealtaine and Imbolg (Oimelc) in Cormac’s Glossary by Éimear Williams in Studia Celtica 2005. In so much as it's a neo-Pagan festival, I'd argue they should be split too. Sionnachnaréaltaí (talk) 12:32, 30 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Imbolc And Saint Brigid's Day should have distinct articles. 84.203.148.201 (talk) 21:50, 31 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Name of the page

Why is the name of the page Imbolc rather than St. Brigid's Day when most Irish people (and afaik everywhere else) would refer to it as the latter? 0123Qwerty3210 (talk) 21:06, 5 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Uou may be looking for the Brigid of Kildare article, but Imbolc absolutely is celebrated, and not just by pagans. See, for example, here, here, here, here, here and here. Oh, and the government ministerial take, here. Oh, and my search deliberately excluded non-Irish sites; there were plenty of them, too. Bastun^{Ėġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ!} 12:17, 5 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think that was what 0123Qwerty3210 was objecting to. Of course it exists and is celebrated. The difference is whether the term St Brigid's day or Imbolc is used more often, and here I think it is more ambiguous. JJLiu112 (talk) 19:16, 20 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]